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Mozilla Sunbird 0.5 Released
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kdawson
on Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:56 AM
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linux pickle writes "Mozilla has released version 0.5 of Sunbird, its calendar app. New features in this release include numerous stability and usage improvements, Google Calendar synchronization support, and much improved printing support. Check out the release notes or grab a copy."
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Elektroschock writes "The two core developers of Thunderbird have left Mozilla. Scott McGregor made a brief statement: 'I wanted to let the Thunderbird community know that Friday October 12th will be my last day as an employee of the Mozilla Corporation.' Meanwhile, David Bienvenu blogged: 'Just wanted to let everyone know that my last day at The Mozilla Corporation will be Oct. 12. I intend to stay involved with Thunderbird... I've enjoyed working at Mozilla a lot, and I wish Mozilla Co and the new Mail Co all the best.' A few month ago Mozilla management considered abandoning their second product and setting up a special corporation just for the mail client. Scott was more or less supportive. David joined in. While Sunbird just released a new version no appropriate resources were dedicated to the missing component. And while Thunderbird became the most used Linux mail client it has been abandoned by Mozilla for 'popularity reasons'. Both messages from David and Scott do not sound as if the founders will play any role in the Thunderbird Mail Corporation. What happened to Mozilla? Is it a case of pauperization through donations?"
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Lightning Is Released, Too (Score:5, Informative)
Update as usual: Tools > Add-ons > Find Updates
Great work, guys!
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I'm Sorry (Score:5, Informative)
I'd say download it and try it out. If it's too basic for your needs, and it probably is, then look at some of the open source groupware packages.
There's some neat open source groupware out there.
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Although I've only recently started using their server,so far it seems as rock solid as their business and home desktop OS products
That feature is key. (Score:2)
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The documentation is horrible and there is literally nothing on that website that explains how the system works, only the feature set. But absolutely NONE of the featureset is explained in detail.
Short of setting up your own server with the software and spending a ton of time, you probably will not get any answers on what works with that system. Also, after lots of research, the synCML plugin for lightning is no longer supported because the mozilla calendar a
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Nope, tried it at mine. Lightning (a must if you are going to be using Thunderbird in the work place) missing decent native shared calendaring support. This is big stopper. But if you have users that do not require it, go for it. I've rolled it out for our laptop users, i.e users not connected to the exchange server..
Lightning/Sunbird do support shared calendaring. Use either WebDAV or FTP to host it and install it on the client as a remote calendar (whatever it's called). Writing is supported.
If you want to dump exchange, though, go with Scalix. The Community Edition is free for 25 users, though when you get above that it's not cheap. Still, it does everything Exchange does, runs on Linux, provides an excellent web client, full integration with Outlook via a plug-in, and full integration with Evolution via a plug-
Re:I'm Sorry (Score:5, Insightful)
They would be far closer to replacing exchange if they supported Exchange. The Evolution Exchange plugin has been open sourced for ages now, porting it the cross platform Thunderbird and Sunbird would make the suite hugely more attractive to enterprises locked into MS Office for their client software.
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I see. So tell me, what open source projects have been the target of Microsoft patent lawsuits to date? And exactly which patents are you talking about? Microsoft doesn't seem to want to disclose this information, so if you have any insight I'm sure we'd be all ears.
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"The PHP Scalability Myth"
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/10/15/php
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Can it now track events, listed by date and time? (Score:3, Interesting)
Seriously, I tried to organize my SXSW schedule using Sunbird.
1. I added all playings of all movies at SXSW Film that I wanted to see into the SXSW online calendar.
2. Then, I sync'd Sunbird to the online calendar.
3. So that I could make local edits, I exported/reimported the calendar data as a local calendar.
4. I looked at conflicts, etc., and determined which movies I could see on first showing versus catching reruns.
5. When I had it about half done, I sa
What would be cool ... (Score:5, Funny)
It could save on the download because each part would share the UI code, networking code, etc, given that they're all built upon a custom platform layer, and each download replicates that.
Ah well, I'm sure it will never happen.
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http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/ [mozilla.org]
I know you know this exists, but it's polite to include a URL when you're sassing someone who doesn't.
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sounds like the XUL Runner idea (Score:2, Informative)
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/mitchell/archives/2 007/05/xul_and_xulrunner_investment.html [mozillazine.org]
Getting off topic
Can sync (sort of) with exchange (Score:5, Informative)
I still prefer KOrganiser, not least because it has an exchange plug in [kde.org]. Integration with the mail client is also better in my opinion.
In fact Kontact is overall a fantastic piece of software. My only gripe is the fact that it's handling of IMAP mailboxes is horrific, but I believe that is slated for a total revamp in KDE4.
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How do you pull your appointments from an exchange server?
Re:Can sync (sort of) with exchange (Score:4, Funny)
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Yes, but in order to be that dedicated you would first have to be committed... To a to a highly secure facility for the chronically insane
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With this latest announcement of Google Calendar Sync ability this opens up the option of getting my Outlook at work to sync up with my Sunbird at home on my Mac OS X desktop via a couple of hops.
1. Outlook PC at work to ScheduleWorld.com using a Funambol client to extract from Outlook.
2. ScheduleWorld.com to Google Calendar via ScheduleWorld's Google sync ability. You can make step #2 automatic by enabling this in the preferences of your ScheduleWorld (fr
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Exchange Required (Score:5, Insightful)
Please Fix It (Score:4, Funny)
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Then you better bring to the table the features that Exchange has that folks want. There is no good central calendar sharing server software in the OSS world that can do what Exchange can and integrates everything together with email. It simply doesn't exist, so folks won't migrate for that reason.
A good first step in moving would be to integrate your client so that it can use exchange until an OSS exchange server replacement is made. That's what the grandparent wanted, and it's a very reasonable request.
The vast masses aren't going to migrate away from MS based on principle. They want things that work. You aren't going to break the hegemony until you provide them with something that works as well. Sunbird isn't there yet. Not by a long shot.
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It is easier to migrate a single server than a thousand clients.
Once you have a server that that supports Sunbird "and Sunbird+Thunderbird can do everything Outlook can" it will be easy to migrate people off of Outlook.
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Then Sunbird is doomed to a small niche.
Apparently you've missed the last 10 "revolutions".
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Darwin Calendar Server Support? (Score:5, Interesting)
Looks awesome! (Score:2)
Now the events in Sunbird 0.5 are shadowed, looks much nicer. Thanks guys!!
Oh, and if anyone wants to make an openso
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I'd switch in an instant if it had support.
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Cheers,
Morel
Congratulations to the team (Score:2, Insightful)
* my own iBook, running iCal
* iPod sync'ed off of iCal
* Novell Groupwise at work, on both company Dell laptop and desktop
* Windows Mobile 2003 PIM thing as my work mobile phone
And what runs on everything? The open source stuff, running on many platforms and generating files to import for everything. No agenda as to 'doesn't import / export files for other platforms'. Cracking interfa
Too late, Google Calendar wins. (Score:2)
But I'm not gonna use it now, because I've found Google Calendar. SMS support alone is worth the switch. It also has contacts integration so I can invite people to meetings from my contact list, and it has an upsell story: You can run Google Apps for Domains and get the PIM/Groupware featur
Google Sync is the most important... (Score:3, Interesting)
Off topic: anyone hear any rumors about gmail supporting IMAP?
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I'm a bit busy right now. Cheney asked me to come back home for a nooner, and thought I would love to discuss this proposition, I cannot sit down right now.
Perhaps some other time?
Love,
*S
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